Professional Development TeamWeekly Meeting

November 19, 2012

Webinar Protocol

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• Eliminate background noise as much as possible.

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Thanks to Mary M for taking notes

today!

Meeting Outcomes

By the end of this session, participants will.…• Discuss requirements for cancelling a RESA session

• Discuss Summer Institute content

• Receive an update on training for support rubrics

• Discuss EVAAS issues

• Discuss team maintenance issues

• Issues Bin

Team Norms

• Respectful communication as allies.

• Be actively involved

• Focus on established goals

• Assume the best of my colleagues

• Thoughtfully involve others

Welcome

• Becky Pearson, region 8

• Lisa Amerson, region 7

• Joining us in January– Amy Blake-Lewis, region 5

Good News

DeLea

The 17th Annual Conference of Advancing School Mental Health

Salt Lake City, Utah – October 25-27, 2012

School Mental Health: Promoting Positive Outcomes

for Students

The conference emphasized a shared school-family-community agenda to bring high quality and

evidence-based mental health promotion, prevention, and intervention to students in general

and special education and their families.

Collaborative, Multi-System Professional Development Tool:A Panel to Guide Building a Sustainable and Replicable Behavioral Health Tool for the Classroom

Understanding Student Behavior in the Classroom – 6th – 12th grade

Understanding Young Student Behavior in the Classroom - PreK-5th grade

• Background for module development

• Outlined the content within the modules

• Emphasized the need to Increase awareness of strategies that teachers may use to help students achieve academic success

• When to involve the School Resource Officer

• Provide a framework of how participants could replicate this type of module development in their state.

TO CANCEL OR NOT TO CANCEL: RESA REGISTRATION NUMBERS

Yvette

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DISCUSS INITIAL IDEAS ABOUT SUMMER INSTITUTE CONTENT

Yvette

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SI 2013 – Plans Underway!

• “Summer Institute is not about just [curriculum] content, rather the work of the agency”

• Details not finalized yet; preparing to share at December meeting

• Know that we are thinking differently about the overall structure

• Vision includes:

– Choice

– LEA/Charter School involvement

– More facilitation, less direct training

• Would like to present new strands this summer

Possible Strands…

Building PD Capacity

Mary KeelHeather StewartAdriane MingoPaul Marshall

NCEES

Kim SimmonsDonna AlbaughDianne MeiggsTara PattersonCynthia MartinDeLea Payne

Assessments Data Literacy

Greg McKnightLisa Amerson

Building Instructional

Capacity

Robin SmithBeth EdwardsBarbara BensonJody ClevenJoyce GardnerBecky Pearson

21st Century/P21 Framework

Abbey FutrellHeather MullinsJason RhodesJessica Garner

Home Base ©

Mary Russell

Facilitated Team Time

UPDATE ON SUPPORT RUBRIC TRAINING

Kim

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EVAAS QUESTIONS?Eliz and Robert

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EVAAS QUESTIONS

• Ask Jenn first

• Sandy Horne bills DPI every time she chats with you. We have put a serious dent in the contract.

• Take advantage of the trainings in Region 7 and Region 2. The local PD leads have invited you to attend. Sandy will be there to train.

TEAM MAINTENANCE ISSUES

Robert and Eliz

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Team Maintenance issues

• Your travel needs to be turned in monthly. Do not wait to send a bunch of months at one time unless you have only 1-2 short trips. Do not wait to get a check for one month before sending the next month. Keep them coming.

• Your year-end evaluations are due by December 15, 2012. Expect a call from Robert, Yvette, or Eliz to discuss progress on the goals you submitted. If you are new to the team and haven’t written one, don’t worry. If you are unsure, contact Eliz.

• Your new goals for the 2013 year will be due by the end of December, 2012.

• Team meeting on Monday, November 26 is cancelled but Lunch and Learn is not cancelled.

• Check the December SBE agenda for Educator Effectiveness items. Plan to listen in for those agenda items. The meeting is Dec 5-6.

• November 22 and 23 are holidays. November 21 is not. Please send Eliz the dates you want off for the Thanksgiving and Winter holidays. If you aren’t taking any days, let Eliz know that as well.

• Team meeting on December 10 is cancelled so that you are available to attend the EVAAS session in region 7. You must register in advance at the NWRESA website.

• We need nominations about what NC’s Best Teachers Do. Visit http://tinyurl.com/Best-TeachersNominationForm

• To further your learning -- join the NC Department of Public Instruction and NC Principals and Assistant Principals Association for a webinar on educator effectiveness.  The webinar will provide updates on the new student growth standards, EVAAS, and the Measures of Student Learning: NC's Common Exams.  The webinar will be held on December 6 from 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. To register, please visit https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/926283128. 

• Lunch and Learn 2.0 – Upcoming topics

– Nov 26 – Strategies for Success for Go-To Meeting

– Dec 3 – Strategies and Success for Go-To Meeting, part 2

Issues Bin

TRAINING ON SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS RUBRIC

Kim and Perry Flynn

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